Word: wars
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Noting that it was the 10-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rubin said media-government relations have deteriorated since the end of the Cold War...
...began in the Vietnamese war because we [reporters] felt the government was lying to us," Mirsky said during the question and answer period...
...Pentagon report released last week has some in Washington claiming that America - supposedly the world's last remaining superpower - could no longer withstand two regional wars at once. It's been at least seven years since the Army has ranked one of its 10 divisions as C-4, or unfit to serve in war, but this year two divisions received that ranking, while, for the first time in recent memory, no division received the highest ranking. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blamed the Army's failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas...
That's right--as we move into the 21st century, we are steadily getting pudgier. Fat, some would have you believe, is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, riding right alongside War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. And it's immensely lucrative. Do you think the shrewd folks at Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast and Weight Watchers could make billions scaring the bejesus out of you about pestilence? Make no mistake--fat phobia is a big moneymaker for those who have figured out how to promote and cash in on self-hatred...
While its Mexican neighbors to the north took part in their first presidential primary Sunday, Guatemalan voters took part in the first election since the country's long-running civil war ended in 1996. The result? There will be a run-off in December, since no candidate gained a majority. During the country's 36-year civil war, voters, particularly rural peasants, were intimidated away from voting booths by gun-toting soldiers. As a result, the ruling party has long been the urban- and military-friendly National Advancement Party. While one U.N. peacekeeper monitoring the elections said the elections took...